I've ridden Uber drunk. So, you're welcome.
Not like drunk-drunk, but definitely drunk enough that I shouldn't be driving. Also, I think it was Lyft, not Uber.
2: Would you have driven if there was no Lyft or Uber?
I didn't have an car with me. I was going to take the bus but forgot how late it was.
I would completely believe that what Uber is substituting for is not individual driving. In places where Uber exists, there's usually some kind of taxi service already, and often public transit as well; you're buying the particular service and convenience they offer, not access to someone-else-drives transportation in the first place.
The article mentions this, as well as the potential difference between the large metro areas and the more suburban areas that have both less taxi service and less infiltration by Uber and friends.
(I like Uber over taxis for getting back from places after I've been drinking because I live in fear of underpaying or being a total jerk by undertipping, and don't trust myself to do tip math correctly when drunk).
It really is remarkable how little alcohol it takes before I have trouble with math like that. After like five beers, I always feel like I need to use the calculator on my phone.
... "some girl named Kriston" - Really? Some girl?
... "some girl named Kriston" - Really? Some girl?
... "some girl named Kriston" - Really? Some girl?
Didn't mean to multi-post. Didn't get any indication that my input was accepted and hit the button several times.
2: It was Lyft. I tell myself I prefer them because they have slightly less creepy labor practices. On the other hand, our driver was very scary and/or trolling me.
The actual study is behind a paywall; I'd be interested if there was any effect in Pittsburgh as our taxis were shit pre-Uber. They might not longer be shit since the major taxi company rebranded as a ride-sharing company.
I've (over a decade) driven home from the South Side (neighborhood with lots of bars, not particularly transit-convenient from home) once or twice when my state was debatable. Not proud of this in the slightest, but there isn't even the temptation to do that now. I've also driven to friends' houses in the suburbs and been confident that if everyone gets blitzed we could just leave our car there, Uber home, and pick it up when we're sober.
The author is an old friend of the blog, and has been getting shit about his name for a decade or so around here.
"Some girl named Kriston...on a midnight train to Georgia"
14: your comments are so trampoline.
"Some girl" like "some pig." She's good at smashing arms.
"Girl" is sexist. Some WOMAN name Kriston, heebie.
11.2: It doesn't break it down by city in the paper. I can send it if you'd like.
23: Nah, that's okay. If it's not locally-usable evidence one way or another I'm just going to continue in my unfounded belief that ride-sharing apps have helped here.
Maybe there is an adoption curve and so it will just take some time for the effect to show up in the statistics. E.g., I drove a rental car drunk and wrecked it a few weeks ago and afterwards I wished I had instead used Lyft. Next time I will.
Maybe you should just take the extra insurance next time.
Maybe you should have driven into a trampoline tree instead of the regular kind.
(I was in a rental car because a drunk guy had crashed into my car a few days earlier.)
If you live in a suburb, you should mention this in that urban vs. suburban thread from last week.
I guess we've stopped doing spoiler alerts.
I don't actually get the joke. Is "Kriston" ever a woman's name?
Nah, it just sort of resembles Christopher, which is funny.
For most Americans most of the time, it's pronounced identically to "Kristen."
Probably there are at least a few women named Kriston out there? I mean, I've never seen it as a man's or a woman's name other than for Mr. Capps, but it's a very plausible variant of Kristin/Christine, usually a woman's name.
Regardless, the whole thing is sexist.
A google image search for Kriston suggests that our man is probably the internet famousest of his name, but it's him and a bunch of women.
34: It's a very stupid joke, but the meanness makes up for the stupidity.
There is no way Urple was confused on that point. You're all kristons now.
Sigh. *Puts on kriston cap, goes and sits in corner.*
My google image searches results are the opposite of LB's. There are a few women whom I guess have nontraditionally spelled names, but otherwise it's mostly men. I think of it as a man's name (with that spelling).
Who not whom. That was a typo, not a grammatical error.
I think of "whom" as being a woman, but "who" as being a man.
45: In an existential clause where "there" is a dummy syntactic subject and the noun phrase serving as the topic is on the face of it the object, do the rules that allow "whom" to be used not apply? I would thought it'd still be sufficiently accusative that it'd be valid (and in earlier times and possibly formal writing preferred).
25: I dunno, I'd expect a visible effect to show up pretty quickly. I mean, at least half of the use case is precisely when you'd expect drunk driving to be an option, right? Surge pricing applies at closing time, not 9:30 Sunday morning.
Either way, IIRC Uber & Lyft explicitly claimed that this was a reason to let them operate illegally, so I'm unimpressed by the idea that they just need to do so for a really long time for it to show up as an effect.
Maybe that's a predicative complement, not an object? I dunno, I don't write well.
There is another man-Kriston IN DC even! I don't think they know each other, although I know them both and can verify that they are not the same person.
49: I was mostly just looking for an excuse to tell my sad story, which did result in real life regret at not having used Lyft.
I've never known a women named "Kriston." I've known several men.
Really? Locally? I know none, either gender.
Admittedly, I'm counting the Kriston in question as one of the "several".
51: Nuh-uh. Do you mean Christon (who goes by Christylez Bacon)?
Did you know that you should have written that article last week to save urple from himself?
57: yeah. The study came out while I was at the RNC, so I failed to notice it before. I think urple should blame Donald Trump.
Journalists never accept responsibility for problems they cause. Sad.
No! A deaf one. Scroll down on this page for a headshot/blurb.
I think my cheek bones ate great. The problem is the fat and skin on top of them.
The fat and skin don't age as great as the cheek bones?
I'm surprised that college football doesn't skew even more right (not surprised that it's as popular as it is). Your college football fan is basically the core classic business Republican party member -- relatively prosperous, from a decent but not elitist college maybe in the south or midwest/elite member of a rural-ish community, no graduate degree to turn one liberal, no compunction at watching modern day slaves dance for you, etc etc. And that's true even where that stuff doesn't quite hold -- if you held the Presidential election among the members of the USC/UCLA audience, in one of the most Democratic electorates in the country, I'm pretty sure any mainstream Republican would win. Maybe not Trump.
Whatever, losers. The thread I comment in is always the right thread.
64: Bone tends to be much more durable than soft tissues, yes.
I've never known a women named "Kriston." I've known several men.
Why do all these strange men keep calling themselves "Kriston"?
I think my cheek bones ate great. The problem is the fat and skin on top of them
Also, his left shoulder blade is a vision of loveliness.
I just got pulled over and had to do a field sobriety test. I had 4 cops watching me recite the alphabet backwards. I wasn't drunk or high but apparently anybody up really early in the morning and driving without headlights is assumed to be on something.
70: I could not pass that test. I need to sing the alphabet song every time I have to alphabetize. I'd be constantly having to go to the beginning, recite it forward to the letter I'm on, and maybe get two or three letters before having to start again.
It's not an easy test. It's designed to make you fail. He said I failed the one leg stand test because my foot was two inches and not six inches off the ground.
72 "I thought you said 6 centimeters, officer"
72: "But my boyfriend says that's six inches!"
I may have asked this before, but: is it that American coppers haven't heard of breathalysers, or that the machines are too complicated for them to use, or is there some obscure legal reason why they're still doing this kind of ludicrous parlour-game stuff rather than actually using a proven workable test?
He didn't think I was drunk, he thought I was on drugs for some reason (lack of sleep, probably). The test was just to give him probable cause to inspect my car? But this is not the first time I've been stopped for suspicion of drugs. I had three DEA agents pull their guns on me because I was walking around Nats stadium. Apparently "white guy walking around Nats stadium" equals drug buyer. They came up in a tinted windows Camry and offered me something, it was terrifying. Then they all leaped out of the car and had their guns pointed at me. It was at that point that I decided not to buy a house near Nats stadium.
He said I failed the one leg stand test because my foot was two inches and not six inches off the ground.
"I trained Russian style, madame"
It's killing me that I can't quite place 77.2.
A 16 year old was killed recently here drunk driving. He took an Uber home from a party, then left his house drunk in his parents car.
Terribly sad, but definitely a Darwin award.
I don't understand. Any man's name is a potential woman's name.
Your college football fan is basically the core classic business Republican party member
What? No. Where are you getting this?
if you held the Presidential election among the members of the USC/UCLA audience, in one of the most Democratic electorates in the country, I'm pretty sure any mainstream Republican would win.
This is just simply untrue. Only 15 percent of UCLA students polled in 2012 said they would vote for Romney. The campus is ridiculously more liberal than the general electorate. Even if college football fans are more to the right than the average college student (which I do not allow without qualification), at liberal schools the football fans would still be pulling the lever for Clinton.
I have no idea about UCLA fans political views, but the Nebraska fans who watched the Husker win in the (looks at Wikipedia because who ever heard of it) Foster Farms Bowl were very predominately Republicans. In Nebraska, UNL draws wealthier families and the having season tickets to the games is a good sign of being connected to the local establishment.
But, looking at polls of students doesn't really answer the question about the audience of a college football game. The students are going to make up a small percentage of the audience. I'm pretty sure the Nebraska student body is majority Democratic, but the average fan is a generation older.
Right, I meant the total attendees including alumni. I'm sure if you polled the UCLA student section in 2012 they would have gone for Obama.
Football tickets are super expensive if you are not a current student, so that is going to change the demo too.
I think my cheek bones ate great
Yeah, but the poor guy they ate is really sticking to those bones.
I think my cheek bones ate great
Yeah, but the poor guy they ate is really sticking to those bones.
OFFS. I'm pretty sure I'm not double clicking, here.
I had three DEA agents pull their guns on me because I was walking around Nats stadium
That's a damned lie and you know it -- I ain't had nothin' to do with that stadium and I can prove it. I'm a legitimate businessman!